4.5. Red Hat and openMosix

If you are running a RedHat 7.2, 7.3 or 8.0 version, this is probably
the easiest *Mosix install you have ever done. Choose the appropriate
openMosix RPMs from sourceforge. They have precompiled kernels (as I
write this 2.4.20) that work seamlessly: I have tested them on several
machines including Laptops with PCMCIA cards and Servers with SCSI
disks. If you are a grub user, the kernel rpm even modifies your
grub.conf. So all you have to do is install 2 RPMs:

and edit your /etc/openmosix.map if you don't wish to use the
autodiscovery daemon (omdiscd).
Since this seems to be a problem for lots of people, let's go with
another example. Say you have 3 machines: 192.168.10.220,
192.168.10.78 and 192.168.10.84.
Your openmosix.map will look like this.

If you would like to use more bleeding edge patches, you can always
opt for the src rpm and run rpmbuild --rebuild on it.
This will install the source for you and create an initial config file.
From there you can go further applying patches to openMosix

A tutorial on how to build your own openMosix RPM's can be found in the Appendixes.

As new RedHat versions come out, they might be supported out of
the box so, feel free to drop the author a note and help him keeping
this information updated.